A world class cricket stadium, worth Rs 250 crore, is coming up in this coastal city on a 23 acres of land at Edakochi.
Best facilities of stadiums in Adelaide, Johannesburg and the ones in Hyderabad and Mohali in India will be incorporated init. It would be like a dream come true for all Keralites.
Sources said construction of the project would begin next year and was expected to be completed in three years.
Conception and design work would take six to nine months.
The 23 acres of land for the stadium has already been acquired by KCA . It is also planned to procure additional land near this area in future for the project.
Land adjacent to the stadium would have facilities for indoor games, swimming pools, water sports, an international level club house and a 10-metre shooting range, he said.
The KCA plans to finance the project from the funds that the BCCI gives to state association for new stadiums, its own funds and bank loans.
There are also plans to raise funds through club memberships for the public.
KCA has chalked out a 10 year ‘Mission 2020′ programme, with the main objective of getting Kerala into the Elite Group in Ranji trophy cricket and winning the trophy, besides developing the game in the state.
Other projects are ‘Cricket at Schools’ and ‘Cricket At Sports Hostels’ (CASH), both of which would involve physical education teachers of all the schools in the state, he said.
The CASH project would identify about 60 children from the seventh, eighth and ninth standards, accomodate them in hostels and meet their education and training expenses.
Only few students take interest in sports in Kerala, unlike in neigbouring Tamil Nadu. For under-16 trials, only about 200 students turn up in the state, while it is 2,000 in Tamil Nadu and this trend will be changed.
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